NiceBot News
Twitter

Ethereum Scammers Posing as Tech Celebrities Are Running Rampant On Twitter

Scammers are tricking gullible Twitter users into sending their hard-earned ether (Ethereum's in-house cryptocurrency) to random wallets with the empty promise of a hefty giveaway. It's the latest chapter in the neverending saga of scammers exploiting the cryptocurrency gold rush, and the so-called … Read More

Read More
Facebook

Facebook yanks shooting game from right-wing…

Facebook has admitted it erred in offering a shooting game demonstration at a conference of U.S. conservatives scarcely a week after a young man used a gun to slaughter 17 people at a Florida high school. The Menlo Park social media giant, according to website ThinkProgress, had for the second … …

Read More
Facebook

Facebook removes VR shooting demo at top conservative conference out of ‘respect for the victims …

Facebook has removed a virtual reality shoot-em-up experience from a tech demo at a top American conservative conference after recieving criticism for being "tone deaf" following last week's deadly school shooting in Florida. The social network has a presence at the Conservative Political Action … Read More

Read More
Facebook

Facebook removes VR shooting demo from conservative conference

This week at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference Facebook chose to maintain a booth for attendees that includes an Oculus virtual reality demo. Now This writer Sean Morrow noticed that it included a demo of a shooting game, Bullet Train, where players teleport around a train station … Read More

Read More
Social Media

Commentary: How to stop social media from supercharging hate speech

Donald Trump's retweets of anti-Muslim videos first circulated by an anti-immigrant, far-right British party were just the tip of the iceberg. From Myanmar to the United States, controversial posts by political leaders and public figures have sparked a growing and increasingly global debate about how social … Read More

Read More
Social Media

Rumors on social media create huge scare at Bellaire High School

Bellaire – A frightening situation at Bellaire High School turned out to stem from rumors and falsehoods posted on social media. Acting Bellaire Police Chief Dick Flanagan says several high school girls apparently overheard part of a conversation and thought someone said that a specific individual was … Read More

Read More
Social Media

Some US Companies Bow to Social-Media Pressure, Sever NRA Ties

Companies are reacting partly in response to a social–media movement to pressure or boycott entities with NRA ties, energized by the emotional calls for gun-control action from survivors of the shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and students around the … Read More

Read More
Customer Service

BB&T says an equipment malfunction has caused ‘major inconvenience’ to customers

Banking customers with BB&T cannot access their online bank accounts and other digital services because of a reported equipment malfunction. As of late Friday morning, the malfunction affected online banking, mobile banking and BB&T's automated customer service telephone line. ATMs were also … Read More

Read More
Customer Service

BB&T Customers Locked Out of Online Banking, ATMs After ‘Technical Issue’

It also said that customers should still be able to use debit and credit cards. BB&T, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., is one of the largest regional banks in the U.S. It has about 2,000 branches throughout most of the East Coast and Texas, and has total assets of about $222 …

Read More
Customer Service

Complete care for every customer

In the past cars would come in, be repaired and then returned to customers. … Today there are a lot more steps involved in that process and a lot more customer service involved. … This coupled with improving technology means the team at Graeme Hull Smash Repairs can look after …

Read More